Raggytash, the only words I use in your list are "competent" and "well led."

Some of your list are quotes of well known historians.
Find a historian who does not think the leadership competent.

I do not dismiss historians because they are dead, but current historians dismiss those previous ones who promulgated what are now known to be myths.

I have not dismissed anyone for being left wing, only for being extremist political activists, left or right.

Jim, what current historian is supposed to have said that the jury is still out on Haig?